39 . 
284. C, EmManoinaTa. w. & a. 502. 
Yenkul.—a large erect growing shrub, with smooth obovate leaves; young 
branches armed; flowers from the branches below the leaves; fruit pear 
shaped, size of a large pea; of a bright red colour.—common on the Ghauts, 
also at Mahableshwur. ' 
Perhaps this may be referred to the C. rigida of Wallick, in Flora. Ind. 
2. p. 397. or it may prove a new species. It requires examination. 
ORDER 46. RHAMNEZ. pce. Prod. 2. p. 19. 
Tue BuckTuorn Trise. Lind, nat. syst. p. 113, 
153. ZIZIPHUS. vt. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Zizouf—the Arabic name of the Lotus. Gaert. t. 43. Lam. t. 185. 
285. Z. Rucosa. w. & A. 506. Z. latifolia. Rox, Flora. 1. p. 607. 
Toorun.—a large straggling thorny shrub, with flowers in terminal pani- 
cles; fruit pear shaped; eaten by the natives; in season April and May.—com- 
mon on the Ghauts. This is the species referred to by Dr. Gibson, in Bom- 
bay Med. Trans. |. p. 20. 
286. Z. XYLOPYRA. W. &A, 508. 
Gootee.—a smallthorny tree, fruit size of a large cherry, round, hard, 3 cel- 
led.—the Ghauts pretty common---Duddi. (Mr. Law.) The fruit is used by 
Moochies, for blackening leather, and for making blacking. (Dr. Gibson.) 
287. Z. Jusuba. w. & A. 509. Rheed. Mal. 4. ¢. 41. Rumph. Amb. 4. t. 36, 
Ainslie. Mat. Ind. 2. p. 94. Wight’s Icones, No 5. ¢. 99. Linn. Trans. 17. 
p. 2)1. 
The wild Bhere tree.—common almost every where.--very abundant in the 
Kandesh Jungles, particularly towards the Taptee. (Dr. Gibson.) 
288. Z: Ornopyia. w. & A. 511. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 611. Burm. Zey. t. 61. 
A thorny shrub; leaves covered with a rusty down beneath:—the Concans, 
289.. Z. Vutearis. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 609. Z. sativa. Gaert. t. 43. f. 4. 
The cultivated Bhere.—generally found about old Musselman cities in the 
Deccan and Goozerat, and probably introduced at the time of the Mahome- 
dan conquest;—fruit oblong; ripens in January. The Teesgaum Bhere, famed 
in the Deccan, is rather a fine fruit. 
A fine gum similar to Aino exists in the inner bark of this genus; it is also 
found in the bark of Buchanania latifolia. (Dr. Gibson.) 
The Lote tree of Mungo Parks Travels belongs to the genus. It is desery- 
edly held in great repute, and is to the Africans what the Date is to the Arabs. 
The Greeks gave the name of Lotophagi to a tribe who occupied the 
modern Kingdom of Tunis. A kind of wine was obtained from the fruit on 
which Ulysses and his friends made merry. (See the Odssey.) Mahomet 
has ventured to transplant the Lote tree to the seventh Heaven, (Sale’s Koran. 
C. 53.) 
154. COLUBRINA. w. & a. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Lam. é. 129. 
290. C. AstaTica. w, & a. 518. Ceanothus asiatica. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 615. 
Rheed. Mal. 5. ¢. 47. Burm. Zey. t. 48° 
Gootee.---a large shrub.—common on Elephanta and the Ghauts. 
155. SCUTIA. w. & a. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Scutum---a shield; in allusion to the form of the disk, Gaert, ¢, 106. 
291. S$. Inpica, w. & a, 517. Rheed. Mal, 5, é, 30, and 31. 
